One- and two-truck outfits in northern Palm Beach County
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 13 active carriers with a Tequesta address, and the three biggest among them run two power units, two power units and one power unit. That is a town of one-truck and two-truck operators, so the person selling is usually the person who drove it. Have the title in your own name or your company’s name, plus the current registration, before you contact us.
Of those 13, eight are registered for intrastate work and three for interstate work under the same federal census, while four describe themselves as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck often carries the owning business’s name on the title rather than a person’s; if so, tell us who signs for the company so the paperwork matches the name on file.
Six Tequesta carriers list general freight on their FMCSA filings, two list dry bulk commodities, two list paper products and one lists beverages. Say which of those your truck hauled and what body or trailer it pulled, and send photos of the cab, the frame and the equipment mounted behind it.
Job sites and contractors’ yards in Tequesta
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 3,304 jobs in Tequesta in 2023, and 408 of them, a 12.3 percent share, were in construction. Dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks serving job sites are the kind of equipment that work keeps on the road, and we buy each of them.
Eighty construction establishments appear for the area in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, each a possible home base for a dump truck or flatbed. If your truck is parked at a contractor’s yard or on a job site rather than at home, give us the address and the name of someone who can let us in, and we will plan the collection around that site.
Wholesale trade accounted for 50 Tequesta jobs in 2023 under the same LEHD series. A delivery truck from that side of the local economy is just as welcome; service records, if you kept any, help us understand how it was used.
Mines and rail yards west of town
Palm City Mine, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 14.7 miles north-west of Tequesta, and MC320 Mine, another sand and gravel site, is 18.5 miles west. Dry bulk dump trucks and end dumps that load at pits like these can be collected right where they are kept between runs.
Ten miles west of Tequesta is PALM CENTER, a rail yard on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles loads to or from that yard can stay parked where it is; send us the location and we arrange the rest.
Port of Palm Beach and the West Palm Beach terminals
Some 13.9 miles south, the Port of Palm Beach - Palm Beach Terminal is a roll-on/roll-off terminal on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and the same agency records a rail intermodal ramp, Palm Beach Terminal, at that distance. A day cab or sleeper that has pulled chassis off that ramp is one we purchase; give us the VIN first and the odometer reading second.
The Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal at West Palm Beach, 14.1 miles south of Tequesta, and the rail network lists a PORT OF PALM BEACH yard at 14 miles. If your tractor pulled tank trailers or freight out of that cluster, tell us which sites it served so our questions are about the truck itself.
NAVRESCEN W Palm Beach, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists 18.8 miles south, is further along the same corridor. If your truck sits on a gated property anywhere down there, let us know in advance who controls the gate.
Foliage nurseries and horse barns
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,368 farms in Palm Beach County, and the top three listed products are foliage plants, potted flowering plants and equine. Box trucks and reefers that carry plants out of nurseries, and trucks hauling horse trailers or feed, belong on our buying list too.
If the nursery or stable owns your truck, the title will carry the business name; bring the title, the registration and any record of when it was last serviced, and tell us whether it is kept at a barn or a growing house so we can reach it.
The questions we get asked in Tequesta
- My dump truck is kept at a sand pit out by Palm City Mine. Will you collect it from the pit, or must I haul it home first?Palm City Mine is 14.7 miles north-west of Tequesta on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we come to the truck there. Tell us who runs the site so the visit is arranged with them.
- My Tequesta outfit has two power units. Will you buy the pair together?The biggest Tequesta fleets in FMCSA’s carrier census run one or two power units, and we can buy both of yours together. Send the VIN and title details for each truck.
- The truck is titled to my nursery business, not to me. Will you buy a truck the nursery owns?USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists foliage plants first among the products of Palm Beach County’s 1,368 farms, and a truck titled to a nursery is one we buy. Tell us who is authorised to sign for the business and have the title and registration ready.